This month, celebrate the change in season with countryside-inspired homeware designs, learn the art of still-life oil painting and decorate with classic stripes

Introducing the design trends, new launches and covetable homeware buys that make our hearts skip a beat

Cushions, from £8; mug, £2; jug, £12; candlesticks, ...

A CURATION OF THE BEST DESIGN AND HOME IDEAS

We inherited a typical 1930s layout of a rectangular bathroom and a separate loo that wasn’t suitable for us. With a teenager and a younger child, we knew we had to change things quickly after moving

Mid-century modernism emerged 70 years ago, but the aesthetic has never looked anything other than perfectly of-the-moment, We love its clean lines, warm wood tones and organic forms – totally modern, yet suffused with nostalgia